Trains to Brazil

"Trains to Brazil" is a song by Guillemots from their 2006 releases Through the Windowpane and From the Cliffs. It was also released as a single. The 2005 single contains three tracks and was released on CD and in limited vinyl 10-inch formats. It was later re-released chart eligibly on 11 September 2006, peaking at number 36.

"Trains to Brazil"
Single by Guillemots
from the album Through the Windowpane
Released	5 December 2005 (2005-12-05)
Recorded	2005
Genre	Indie rock
Length	15:46
Label	Fantastic Plastic
Songwriter(s)	Fyfe Dangerfield
Alternative cover
UK re-issue cover

Overview

In an interview for BBC Brazil, MC Lord Magrão, the band's guitar player, explained that the song title "Trains to Brazil" is a reference to the fatal incident involving the Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot by the police on the London Underground, and that the band's singer/keyboardist Fyfe Dangerfield composed the song in 2002 originally under the title "Life Song".

Fyfe describes the title track as follows:

It was weird, I wrote in 2002 and was sort of thinking about the whole Twin Towers thing, but then a couple of months before the London bombings we decided to drag this song out and do it as a single, and then all that stuff happened. On my birthday, as fate would have it – 7 July. Very odd. But yes, it's also just a song about appreciating life, I guess.

All of the tracks from this single appeared on the 2006 international release "From the Cliffs".

The B-side "Go Away" appeared on a compilation CD from British music magazine NME.

Track listings

Original release

1. "Trains to Brazil" (Fyfe Dangerfield) – 4:01
2. "Go Away" – 7:47
3. "My Chosen One" – 3:14

Re-issue

CD

1. "Trains to Brazil"
2. "White Rag" (Demo)
3. "Blue Eyes"

7-inch

1. "Trains to Brazil"
2. "Witch Doctor"

7-inch

1. "Trains to Brazil"
2. "You Can Look (But You Can't Touch)" (featuring Freakshow)
3. "All The People Say"

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics